Sumoto River Barge

I took my camera to work last Thursday so I could snap some photos on the way home.
This is a construction barge that’s been scooping mud from the river bed in the city’s effort to deepen it, as an anti-flooding measure.
There was a huge school of mullet fingerlings under a bridge I crossed, where two branches of the river merge and the current runs strongest.
Another shot of the barge, and the adjacent “dump boat,” taken from the opposite bridge.
The high resolution shots are available here: 2006 Sumoto River